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The Dwarf's Chamber And Other Stories
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Fergus Hume
Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia
Cecilia de Noël
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different v…
Around The Yule Log
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Willis Boyd Allen
Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)
A Versailles Christmas-Tide
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Mary Stuart Boyd
The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david w…
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers
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Pedro Antonio De Alarcón Y Ariza
Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales
Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration – 15 April 2015
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Various
April 14-15th, 2015, is the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is a collection of pieces to mark that…
California History -- Two Pieces
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Various
Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of Calif…
Sea Poems: An Idiosyncratic Selection
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Various
Seventeen poems about the sea or in which the sea plays an important role. - Summary by david wales
Mademoiselle Ixe
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…
Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress
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Gaylord Dubois
Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying cor…
The Compleat Bachelor
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Oliver Onions
George Oliver Onions was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historica…
Early Days Of Old Oregon
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Katharine Berry Judson
Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original…
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest
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Katharine Berry Judson
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…
The American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad
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Various
Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An an…
Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces
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Various
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…
Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man
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Bartimeus
Twenty-six stories of pre-World War I British naval life in war and peace. - Summary by david wales
Tales of English Minsters: Hereford
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Elizabeth W. Grierson
This short book was originally written for children, though adults will also find it worthwhile. It tells interesting history of Hereford i…
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign
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John Ashton
"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like…
Stories From Wagner
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J. Walker McSpadden
Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Ta…
The Third Circle
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Frank Norris
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…